Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps you work with — and honor — your brilliantly rational and intellectual mind.
We don’t try to shut down your thinking or overanalyzing; instead, we notice where certain thought patterns (like harsh self-criticism, anxiety spirals, or black-and-white thinking) might actually be holding you back or making things harder for you.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps you:

• Recognize unhelpful or rigid thought patterns

• Understand how these thoughts impact your emotions and behaviors

• Reshape these patterns into more flexible, compassionate, and balanced perspectives

For intellectually oriented clients, this work is powerful because it meets you where you naturally operate — in your mind — but then guides you toward using that strength more skillfully, in ways that serve your emotional well-being rather than undermine it.

Together, we work on shifting the mental habits that keep you stuck, so you can build a mindset that supports your growth, resilience, and emotional integration — not just one that loops endlessly in self-critique or overanalysis.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) gives you practical, evidence-based tools to help regulate your emotions, navigate conflict, and stay grounded when life feels overwhelming — because even the sharpest insights or best self-analysis can’t fully protect you from real emotional storms.

For clients who lean heavily on intellect and insight, it’s easy to believe that if I just understand myself enough, I won’t feel so thrown off by emotions or stress. But life doesn’t work that way — emotions can’t always be solved by thinking harder.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy teaches you how to balance two key ideas:

• Acceptance — meeting yourself exactly where you are, with compassion and without judgment

• Change — learning concrete skills to move toward the life you want, even in the face of difficult feelings or situations

With Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, you’ll learn tools to:

• Stay present when emotions feel big or overwhelming

• Soothe your nervous system and stay grounded under stress

• Communicate more effectively, even in conflict

• Build emotional resilience so you can handle life’s ups and downs without shutting down or spiraling

Over time, these practices help you bring your insights into action, creating real change you can live, not just think about.

Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps you slow down and connect with your deeper, core feelings — not just the surface-level emotions like frustration, irritation, or (a client favorite) annoyance, but the more vulnerable feelings that often live underneath.

Many intellectually oriented clients are great at analyzing why they feel a certain way or explaining what should be happening — but that can sometimes keep them stuck in their heads, circling around the emotions rather than actually experiencing and processing them.

In Emotion focused Therapy, we create space to notice what’s really happening beneath the surface. We explore and make room for feelings like sadness, fear, shame, or longing — the feelings that often go unspoken but have the power to guide meaningful healing and change.

This approach helps you:

• Access your felt sense — the emotional truth beneath the intellectual story

• Move through emotions instead of getting stuck analyzing them

• Recognize how emotions guide needs, connection, and meaning

• Transform “stuck” emotions (like toxic shame or self-criticism) into more adaptive, healing responses

Emotion Focused Therapy isn’t about “just talking about” emotions or explaining them away — it’s about allowing yourself to feel and process them, in a safe and supported space, so they can shift and open up new pathways for healing.

Over time, this helps bridge the gap between what you know and what you feel — creating a more integrated, emotionally connected version of yourself.

Relational Life Therapy (RLT), developed by couples therapist Terry Real, is a direct, compassionate approach to couples work that helps both partners take accountability for their role in the relationship dynamic—without blame or shame. It's especially powerful for couples stuck in cycles of disconnection, resentment, or emotional shutdown, even when both partners care deeply.

Unlike surface-level communication skills or conflict management tools, Relational Life Therapy goes deeper. It looks at how early family patterns, gender roles, power imbalances, and emotional defenses shape the way each person shows up in the relationship. With honesty, structure, and a good dose of warmth, RLT helps partners move from reactive patterns to more connected, empowered, and respectful ways of relating.

What are the goals of Relational Life Therapy?

• To restore connection by helping each partner feel seen, heard, and emotionally safe

• To interrupt dysfunctional patterns like blame, withdrawal, or control—and replace them with mutual respect and healthy boundaries

• To help partners take personal responsibility for their impact without collapsing into guilt or defensiveness

• To build a more honest, empowered, and emotionally generous relationship where both people can thrive

What is the Relational Life Therapy approach like?

Relational Life Therapy is active and direct—as your therapist, I won’t just nod and reflect. I’ll offer real-time feedback, coaching, and support as you both learn to take new relational risks. This work blends compassion and accountability, helping each of you become the partner you aspire to be while honoring your individual stories and vulnerabilities.

We’ll work collaboratively to:

• Understand what drives your recurring conflicts

• Unpack old survival strategies that may have worked in the past but don’t serve your relationship now

• Learn relational skills grounded in truth-telling, deep listening, emotional responsibility, and repair

Is Relational Life Therapy a good fit for you?

Relational Life Therapy may be especially helpful if:

• You’re both high-functioning but keep getting stuck in the same arguments or disconnect

• One or both of you tends to dominate, withdraw, or shut down during conflict

• You want a more direct, transformative style of couples therapy—not just passive support or venting space

• You’re open to doing deep, honest work (even if it feels vulnerable) in service of a stronger relationship

Mindfulness helps you slow down and notice what’s happening inside — in your body, your breath, your emotions, and your sensations — without immediately needing to explain, fix, or solve anything.

For clients who tend to live in their heads, mindfulness creates space to simply be with experience, rather than constantly analyzing or judging it. You learn to observe your thoughts and feelings as they arise, with curiosity and gentleness, instead of rushing to make sense of them or push them away.

This practice builds emotional flexibility and resilience. It helps you:

• Stay present even when emotions are uncomfortable

• Let go of the urge to overthink or “figure everything out” right away

• Connect more fully with your body and emotions, not just your thoughts

• Develop a sense of trust in your own experience — that you can handle what arises without controlling or perfecting it

Over time, mindfulness helps bridge the gap between knowing and feeling, allowing you to integrate insight into embodied, lived change. Instead of just understanding your patterns intellectually, you begin to experience them in a new way — with more softness, patience, and self-compassion.